Weekly Update (8-19-2024) (Patreon)

I had a fairly tiring and busy week, but also a decently productive one. August has been a pain for IRL reasons. >.>; Am past the worst of it now, though, and I have a decent chunk of writing done. Like I noted previously, this chapter is weird in that I may need to go back to mapping during the writing process, but still, progress is progress.

I'm going to post a lore post later today, since it's been a while since I've done one of those, and I had some inspiration for an interesting topic that I've thought about a lot but never actually written about.

A few other things I've been musing about. You may recall that there are two colors of red Royal Army armor (the ones on the second column below). I'm considering adjusting this so that the black and gold cloak variants use the same shade of red, then repurposing the darker red armor for the elite honor guard just for visual distinctiveness. This would solve something that's bugged me slightly with the red soldiers all using the same fade of red in the face graphics as well.

Also, you may have noticed that there are a couple of expression changes in battle based on skills (Ligaea smirks if she has Confidence, Sindarion's expression changes in stealth). I've been adding a few more of these and wondered if anyone had any specific thoughts on cooldown-type effects they'd like to see expression changes during. Ones I've considered so far are Alexander's Galeforce and maybe Cynthia's Bloodfury.

Anyway, back to work for the time being.